School: Gallbhaile (roll number 1316)

Location:
Galbally, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Mícheál L. Mac Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 076

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0902, Page 076

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  1. The travelling folk or tinkers as the people call them are very plentiful around this locality.
    Some of these folk live by making tin cans, tea drawers, quarts, dishes, and other tin things. Others spend their time going around begging from the local people. Some of them go around selling delph and holy pictures. The people buy these things in the town and then sell them to the country people and charge them twice as much as they gave for them.
    When these folk come to the door they will always want something such as bread, tea, sugar, salt,
    The folk that make tins sell them at a very high price to any body that will give them what price they ask for
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
        1. travellers (~3,023)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peg Brennan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Galbally, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mrs Brennan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    70
    Address
    Galbally, Co. Wexford